‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, more than 177,000 people were forcibly disappeared between 2011 and 2025 in Syria, most of them arbitrarily detained and taken into notorious prisons by Bashar al-Assad regime forces or other armed groups, where they were tortured and often killed, during a conflict that broke much of Syria’s estimated 25 million population.